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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Cowslip (Primula) |
| Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff. Blair—The Grave. L. 520. | 1 |
| Yet soon fair Spring shall give another scene. And yellow cowslips gild the level green. Anne E. Bleecker—Return to Tamhanick. | 2 |
| And wild-scatter’d cowslips bedeck the green dale. Burns—The Chevalier’s Lament. | 3 |
| Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear. Burns—Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson. | 4 |
| The nesh yonge coweslip bendethe wyth the dewe. Thomas Chatterton—Rowley Poems. Ælla. | 5 |
| The cowslip is a country wench. Hood—Flowers. | 6 |
| The first wan cowslip, wet With tears of the first morn. Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Ode to a Starling. | 7 |
| Through tall cowslips nodding near you, Just to touch you as you pass. Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Song. | 8 |
| Thus I set my printless feet O’er the cowslip’s velvet head, That bends not as I tread. Milton—Comus. Song. | 9 |
| The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover. Henry V. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 48. | 10 |
| The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see: Those be rubies, fairy favours; In those freckles live their savours. Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 10. | 11 |
| And ye talk together still, In the language wherewith Spring Letters cowslips on the hill. Tennyson—Adeline. St. 5. | 12 |
| And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers. Tennyson—The May Queen. St. 8. | 13 |
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